| Contents |
Introduction. Newly Discovered History of Ancient Israel ; Challenge to Biblical Authority ; Appropriating Conquest ; Gottwald's The Tribes of Yahweh ; Theological Reflection ; Undoing Conquest ; Conclusion -- History and Social Change. History and Politics ; Social Imagination ; Radical Imagination ; Christianity and the Hebrew Tradition ; Incorporating New Discoveries -- Archaeology, the Bible, and the Highland Settlements. Invented and Real Histories ; Iron Age I Highland Settlements: An Archaeological Study ; Cultural and Ecological Context of the Late Bronze Age in Canaan ; Interpretation of Archaeological Evidence ; Bible and Archaeology: Contradiction and Congruence ; Interpretations of Israelite Origins in Canaan ; Conclusion -- Conquest in Context. Deuteronomistic History ; Structure and Content of Joshua ; Historiography and Politics: Deuteronomistic History and Josianic Reforms ; Deuteronomistic History as a Historical Rebranding ; Conquest and Christendom ; Conclusion -- Telling the Settlements Story. Golden Age? ; Liberating Imagination ; Storying the Settlements ; Exodus as Cultural Memory ; Unifying Mythology ; Decoupling Exodus and Conquest ; Liberating Exodus ; Power of Exodus ; Theopoetic Storying of the Highland Settlements -- Season of Origins. Theological Reflection ; Liturgical Innovations ; Season of Origins ; Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Resources for Religious Education, Sermons, Biblical Literacy, and Theological Reflection in Dialogue with the Highland Settlements. Religious Education and Sermon Topics ; Importance of History ; Enhancing Biblical Literacy ; Practicing Theological Reflection. |
| Abstract |
"Explores the conquest narrative in the Book of Joshua"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Common, Kate. Undoing conquest Maryknoll, NY : Orbis Books, [2024] 9798888660164 |
| Genre/form | History |
| LCCN | 2023036626 |
| ISBN | 9781626985582 |
| ISBN | 1626985588 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
